Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone on Goldman's staff of 8,000 received a year-end bonus equal to 30% of salary, plus a piece of the firm's $17 million contribution to the employee profit-sharing plan. Moreover, the firm rules say that most of the profits must be reinvested and except in certain dire emergencies cannot be withdrawn until a partner leaves. Even senior partners who make upwards of $20 million draw salaries of well under $300,000. No need to feel too sorry for them though; they can also draw down the interest they earn on reinvested capital, which...
...Orbison's unlikely premise of sidewalk romance, which the judge notes, ". . . ignores the ugliness of street life and the debasement that it signifies." Rebutting the argument that the ditty's commercial intent moots its artistic value, Souter playfully enlists Samuel Johnson: " 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.' " Finally, the court's Latin scholar scores head-banger points for using the phrase "opening bass riff" without quotation marks...
This year I would like to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. How am I going to do this? Why, I'm going to wear the color green. I'm looking forward to it, except I am wondering, Norma, what particular shade of green is most appropriate? Kiss Me, I'm Irish in Kirkland...
...Record Hospital is a nocturnal organization whose purpose is to "expose people to great rock music that they'd otherwise have a hard time finding," according to disc jockey Burt. On the air from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. every night except Sunday, when it starts at midnight, the Record Hospital has become a fixture of the Boston underground music scene by playing rock that is generally unknown and often unusual. The Record Hospital, however, does not value the music it plays solely for its rarity...
...while hardcore pornography is nonexistent on campus (except if privately purchased), Playboys are available for your reading pleasure. Of course, you only read it for the article...